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Trees in the UK face an uncertain future from threats such as climate change, bringing more and more extreme weather, and the recent rise in exotic pests and diseases coming into the country. ... more »

A Lancaster University research project to effectively 'toughen up' wheat crops has just been awarded a £1 million grant. The money will enable Professor Bill Davies and Drs Sally Wilkinson and Ian Dodd at Lancaster Environment Centre to focus on increasing wheat crop yields, making the plants more resilient to stress and enabling them to cope with climate change. ... more »

UK PlantSci 2013, the annual conference of the UK Plant Sciences Federation (UKPSF), kicks off today, 16th April, in Dundee.... more »

Modelling is progressing from the protein and molecular interaction level to tissue, organ, and whole-plant scales; while everything from genomics through to phenomics and, increasingly, field-level and multi-scale biology involves high throughput experiments. All of these necessitate ever greater computing power and use of complex analysis tools and software.... more »